What’s Cooking in the Advanced Materials and Metallurgy Labs?
From the perspective of USC researcher Wen Chen, human history is a tale of material transformation.
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New DARPA-Funded Project Aims to Unravel the Brain’s Learning Secrets
A USC Viterbi team will lead the study that could inform future diagnoses for neurological disorders and the development of next-generation bio-inspired AI.
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Hangbo Zhao Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award for Advanced Manufacturing Research
The $546,713 award will support Zhao’s pioneering work in high-resolution manufacturing of stretchable electronics.
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Why Your Friends May Be More Susceptible to Influence Than You Are
USC/ISI researchers examine who gets influenced online and why, in award-winning research recognized at ICWSM 2025.
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New Discovery Reveals the Spinal Cord’s Role in Bladder Control
A first-of-its-kind study offers hope for future treatments of urinary incontinence caused by neurological disorders, aging and other conditions.
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ISI at ACL 2025
Papers explore the struggles of AI teaching, authorship, AI safety, and the limits of language models in interviews and mime.
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New Wearable Sensor Made at USC Could Help Patients with Bipolar Disorder Track Medication Levels Through Sweat
The wearable sensor, believed to be first of its kind, could vastly improve treatment and drug safety for millions of patients who take lithium for bipolar disorder.
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Unlocking the Brain’s Filing Cabinet
USC researchers have discovered how the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing.
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Two USC Professors Win Inaugural Google Junior Faculty Awards
Robin Jia and Ibrahim Sabek among 50 assistant professors nationwide to receive $100,000 grants for computing research.
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USC at ICML 2025
From health applications to theoretical breakthroughs, USC researchers contribute to a dynamic range of work at this year’s premier machine learning conference
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Discovering New Materials: AI Can Simulate Billions of Atoms Simultaneously
Allegro-FM achieves breakthrough scalability for materials research, enabling simulations 1,000 times larger than previous models.
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Beyond “Run, Hide, Fight”: Defensive Design for Safer Campuses
A team of USC researchers have developed a simulation strategy for understanding and predicting how people respond to emergencies such as active shooter incidents and fires.
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AI Unlocks Earth’s Subsurface Mysteries for Smart Energy Applications
As global energy challenges continue to escalate, a pioneering AI-driven study by USC Viterbi researchers offers timely solutions to CO₂ storage and resource management.
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A Real-Time Look at How AI Is Reshaping Work
USC students and researchers track where AI is having the biggest impact on jobs, salaries, and industries.
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RSS 2025 Marks Largest in History as Conference Returns to USC
USC faculty and students hosted the 21st Robotics: Science and System Conference, featuring world-class robotics labs, demos, workshops, and paper presentations.
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Analyzing How Americans Debate Abortion
ISI researchers show how liberals and conservatives use diverging frames to discuss abortion—with increasing hostility.
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Could Open-Source Medical Devices Transform Healthcare?
USC Viterbi researchers examine how an open-source approach is changing the game for the medical device sector, accelerating research and bringing benefits to patients.
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A Game-Changing Wireless Implant for Personalized Chronic Pain Relief
USC researchers have developed a groundbreaking ultrasound device that could reduce our reliance on addictive painkillers.
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ISI at ICWSM 2025
Eleven papers explore labor inequality, language bias, political division, and TikTok’s role in crisis communication.
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New USC study demonstrates unconditional exponential quantum scaling advantage
Conducted on IBM quantum processors, study demonstrates “a promise of quantum computing previously articulated only on paper.”
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Can AI Be Your Therapist? Not Quite Yet, Says New USC Study
USC study finds large language models fall short of humans in building therapeutic rapport – a critical factor in mental health care.
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Reimagining Energy
Annual USC Viterbi ECET Summit highlights cutting-edge research, energy augmentation breakthroughs, a new energy degree offering, and insights shaping the economics of energy and business.
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USC Viterbi School and BITS Pilani Forge Global Partnership to Advance Research and Education
Agreement between two schools creates new degree program and joint academic exchange.
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Researchers Uncover Hidden Airport Hotspots in Global Wildlife Trafficking Using AI
New Nature study highlights predictive power of AI in identifying airports used as key nodes in illegal wildlife trade networks